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Visual Basic Tutorials provide hundreds of FREE lessons to help you master Visual Basic programming. The tutorials cover both the classic Visual Basic 6 and the Visual Basic.NET programming language. Our tutor, Dr.Liew, has written these lessons in a straightforward manner for ease of learning. In addition, he also runs tutorials on Excel VBA, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML&CSS and blockchain.

Dr.Liew has released his latest Visual Basic Made Easy series book, Visual Basic 2017 Made Easy. This book was written to complement our free online Visual Basic 2017 tutorial. Be the first one to download this book and learn the newest Visual Basic.NET programming language. Besides that, he has also authored several Visual Basic Made Easy Series books that are available in digital versions for your mobile devices and Kindle. These books are excellent reference text for high school or college-level computer science courses.

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A Brief History of Visual Basic

Visual Basic is a third-generation event-driven programming language first released by Microsoft in 1991. The final version was Visual Basic 6. VB is a user-friendly programming language designed for beginners. Therefore, It enables anyone to develop GUI window applications easily. Many developers still favor VB6 over its successor VB.NET.

In 2002, Microsoft released Visual Basic.NET(VB.NET) to replace Visual Basic 6. Thereafter, Microsoft declared VB6 a legacy programming language in 2008. However, Microsoft still provides some form of support for VB6. VB.NET is a fully object-oriented programming language implemented in the .NET Framework. It was created to cater for the development of the web as well as mobile applications.

Subsequently, Microsoft has released many versions of VB.NET. They are VB2005, VB2008, VB2010, VB2012, VB2013, VB2015 and VB2017. Although the .NET portion was discarded in 2005, all versions of the Visual Basic programming language released since 2002 are regarded as VB.NET programming languages.

Every version of VB.NET is bundled with other Microsoft programming languages that include C#, C++, F#, JavaScript, Python and more in the Microsoft Integrated Development Environment(IDE) known as Visual Studio. Microsoft has added many new features in the latest Visual Studio 2017, particularly those features for building mobile applications. You can download the Free Visual Studio Community 2017 RC from https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads.